Mechanical toy.



HOMER CROSBY MURRAY, OF GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI MECHANICAL TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Dec. 4, 1906.

Application filed July 23,1906. Serial No. 327,318.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOMER CRosBY MUR- RAY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Gulfport, in the county of Harrison and. Stateof Mississippi, have invented a new and Improved Mechanical Toy, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a mechanical toy adapted tobe pushed over a surface and wherein as the toy is moved backward andforward the head of the object carried by the toy will be automaticallyturned from side to side.

Another purpose of the invention is to so construct a toy of thecharacter described that it will be simple, durable, and, economic andattractive to children.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved toy and Fig. 2 is asectional plan view thereof, the section being taken substantially onthe line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The body of the toy consists of a bar or rod A of desired length,circular in cross-section throughout the major portion of its length,and which is provided at one end with a handle and at the other end witha longitudinal enlargement 11, in which enlarged portion 11 of thebody-rod a longitudinal recess 1 1 is made at one side.

A wheel 12 of desired diameter is mounted, through the medium of asuitable spindle 13, upon the recessed portion 11" of the bodybar A, andsaid body-bar is adapted to carry a fixed object B, which may be of anydesired character. As shown, the object B repre sents a running horse,the fore feet 14 whereof are secured to the enlargement 11. of thebodybar, while the hind feet 14L are secured to a block 15, fixed to thebody-bar A in any suitable or approved manner. A rider 16 is shownmounted on the representation of the horse, and the arms 17 and legs 18of the rider are preferably pivotally connected with the trunk' of saidrider.

A vertical opening 19 ismade in the body of the horse or mount B, and acorresponding opening 20 is made longitudinally in the trunk .ispreferably secured to said mount.

of the representation of the rider, which rider A spindle 21 is carriedloosely up through the open ing 19 in the representation of the horseand through the opening 20 in the representation of the rider, and thehead 22 of said rider is either integral with or is attached to theupper end of the said spindle 21, so that as said. spindle 21 is turnedto the right or to the left the representation of the head of the riderwill be turned correspondingly. I

The spindle 21 is prevented from being drawn out from its seat by a pin23 or projection passed through the lower portion of the spindle 21,which lower portion of the spindle extends below the trunk of the objectB. A screw-eye 24 or like device is secured to the lower end of thespindle 21 and a cable or chain 25 or other flexible material is securedto the eye 24 and to an eye 27 or its equivalent located at one side ofa block or slide 26, mounted to move freely on the body-bar A in frontof the enlarged section 11 thereof, and this slide 26 is connected,bymeans of a pitman 28, with the wheel 12. Thus in operation as the wheel1.2 is rolled over the ground or other support backward or forward arocking motion in a rotary direction is given to the spindle 21, causingthe head of the object with which the spindle-is connected to move fromside to side.

This toy is very simple, it is durable, and it is economic-and can bemade very pleasing to children.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, amechanical toy, comprising a body-section, a wheel mounted to turnthereon, an object mounted on the body-section, a member of which objectis movable, a spindle connected with the movable portion of said object,a slide mounted on the body, a flexible connection between the spindleand the slide, and a pitman connection between the slide and the wheel.

2. In a mechanical toy, a body-bar, a wheel mounted at one end of thebody-bar, an object fixed on the said body-bar, having a rotatablemember, a spindle secured to the rotatable member, extending through thefixed portion of said object, a slide mounted on the body-bar, and aflexible connection between the lower portion of the saidspindle and anouter side portion of the slide and a pitman connection between theslide and the said wheel.

3. In a mechanical toy, a body-bar circular in cross-section throughoutthe major portion of its length, which body-bar is provided with ahandle at one end and a longitudinal enlargement at the opposite endhaving a longitudmal recess in one of its sides, a Wheel mounted to turnat the recessed portion of the body-bar, an object fixedly secured tosaid body-bar, a second object mounted onthe fixed object and providedwith a rotatable head member, a spindle secured to the said head memberof said mounted object, extending down through the mounted object andthe fixed object, the spindle being free to turn in both of saidobjects, a slide mounted for longitudinal movement on the circularportion of the body-b ar, a flexible connection between the lower end ofthe spindle and the side portion of the slide, and a pitman pivotallyattached to the slide and to the said wheel, for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HOMER CROSBY MURRAY,

Witnesses:

M. WALLACE SMITH, H. A. WRIGHT.

